Observances about nature and life
from just outside Victoria BC . . . and from sundry other locations

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Agave shadows

Today I've been reviewing some of the photos from our Mexico trip and I realized that I probably have fifty or so of the agave plant. The agave is is a beautiful succulent with many varieties, each of them beautiful, but the ones that captivated me are the big Agave Americana, also known as the Century Plant. They have strong curving leaves edges with beautiful regular spines and in the Mexican sun the shadows create lovely sculptural forms.

This last shadow is more like an echo. You can clearly see the indentations left by adjacent leaves that unfolded away from the core. Beautiful!

And here's a photo of the incredible flower that these plants produce (after many years). This one was about 15 feet tall. After it blooms, the plant dies; although smaller plants are produced from offsets at the base of the stem.

Wonderful photos... the leaves are so beautiful ! we have the same idea ... one of my post for next week is the fact, two of my Century Plants are blooming. Taking pictures like crazy and very sad that I am losing half of my living sculpture that is the focal point of my back yard...

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Occasional musings from Haliburton Hill, just outside of Victoria, BC. I live here with my husband Harry and our two Border Collies. We're empty nesters now as our son Jamie is at UBC. I started blogging about our winter trips to Mexico and the habit stuck.